End-gate.



Nu. 672,720.- Patented Apr. 23,191.

F. M. STURGIS.

END GATE.

(Ap plication filed Jan. 25, 1901.; (N 0 M o d e I.)

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No. 672,720. Patented Apr. 23, IBM.

F. M. STUBGIS.

END GATE.

- (Application filed Jan. 25. 1901.) (No llodel.) 2 Sheets-Sheefl 2.

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FRANCIS M. STURGIS, OF SHELBYVILLE, ILLINOIS.

EN D-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 672,720, dated April 23, 1901.

Application filed January 25, 1901. Seris11lo.44,727. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. STUReIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shelbyville, in the county of Shelby and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful End- Gate, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in end-gates.

One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of end-gates and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one adapted to be readily applied to wagon bodies or beds of difierent heights and adapt- .ed to be readily lowered to a position for shov- View of a portion of a wagon-body provided with an end-gate constructed in accordance with this invention and arranged in its closed position. Fig. 2 is a similar View, the endgate being arranged upon the top of the wagon body or bed for dumping. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view, the parts being arranged as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar view, the end-gate being lowered for shoveling. Fig. 5 is a detail View illustrating the arrangement of the locking-lever. Fig. 6 is a detail viewof one of the hangers. Fig. 7 is is provided at its bottom with slots 7 to receive the lower ends of the links, and the pintles 3, which extend across the slots, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, have their ends enlarged and perforated for the reception of screws or other suitable fastening devices for securing them to the end-gate. The lower ends of the links are provided with eyes or hooks 8, which are closed around the pintles to secure the latter to the links, which are adapted to sustain the weight of the endgate when the same is in a vertical position, as clearly indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The upper ends of the links are provided with perforations 9 for the reception of pivots 10 of the hangers, and the said links are adjustably secured on the pivots by means of split keys 10*. The split keys detachably secure the links on the pivots and permit the former to be adjusted, which adjustment may be ef-. fected by arranging the pivots in the different perforations, and the latter may be of any desired number.

The hangers, which are adapted to saddle the upper edges of the sides of the wagonbody, consist of exterior plates provided at their upper edges with hooks 11 and 12, which engage the upper edges of the sides of the wagon-body and which are arranged at the inner and outer ends of the said plates. The outer hook 12 is provided with a depending L-shaped arm 13, arranged between the vertical cleats 14 of the adjacent side of the wagonbody and supporting the pivot 10. The hanger is detachably mounted on the .wagon-body and does not require any bolts or other fastening devices for securing it to the sides of the same. Each hanger is provided at the lower portion of the exterior plate with an angularly-bent offset portion 15, having exterior corrugations 16, adapted to be engaged by corresponding corrugations 17 of a latch-bar or keeper 18. The latchbar or keeper 18, which is arranged at each side of the wagon-body, is adjustably mounted on the angularly-bent offset lower portion of the hanger and is adj ustably secured to the same by a bolt 19, having a nut and. passing through a vertical slot 20 of the hanger and adapted to be raised and lowered to arrange the head of the bolt, and when the nut is loosened .the keeper or latch-bar 18 may be readily raised andlowered.

The latch-bars or keepers 18 extend rearward beyond the end-gate when the latter is in a Vertical position and are iprovided at their lower edgeswith recesses 22 to'receive the outer ends of the locking-levers 21. The

locking-levers are pivotally connected at;

their inner ends by a rivet 23 or other suitable fastening device, and they are fulcrumed' between'theirends onthe rear or outer face,

of the endgate by bolts 24, and they are adapted to be oscillated to carry their outer ends into and out of the recesses of the latchbars or keepers 18. The bolts 24 are provided at their outer ends with nuts 25, andthe levers are enlarged betweentheir ends and are provided with elliptical openings "26. The elliptical openings26, which are'adapted to receivethe pivot-bolts 24, permit the locking- 'levers to be adjusted vertically'and provide the necessary longitudinal play to permit the locking-levers, which are pivotedtogether at their inner ends, to be oscillated vertically. Thelevers are operated by a lever' 27, fulcrumed in an opening of a vertical bracket 28, which is mounted on the'end-gate and which is composed of vertical sides spaced 'ries of perforationsforthe reception of a bolt 30, which is adapted to bear-ranged in any set of the perforations3l to'arrange'the operating-lever at thedesired elevation. The bracket is'provided at its ends with perforatedflanges forthe'reception of fasteningj devices for'securing it 'toithe end-gate, and.

the latter has a vertical slot or opening 32 to permit the necessary movement of the head or enlarged portion ofthe operating-lever.

When the'operating l'ever 'is swung downward fromthe position illustrated in Figs. 1

and 3, the outer ends of the locking-levers are swung downward and'disengagedfrom thelatch-bars or keepers,and the end-gate'is free to swing downward-to theposition illustrated in ,Fig. 4. This operation may beef- 'fected withoutnecessitating the driver or other person getting off the wagon. The endgate is supported in the position illustrated in Fig. 4 of the accompanyingdrawings'by the links'and by arms or hooks 33, formed integral with straps or shanks 34 and extending from and adapted to prevent the lower edge of the end-gate from rising from the position illustratedin Fig. 4. Theprojecting arms or hooks, which are substantially L-shaped,abut against the end-of the wagon-body and extend beneath the same. 'When it is desired'to'arrange the wagon-body for dumping, the end-' gate isadapted .to be swung upward to the position illustrated in Fig.2 .of the accompanying drawings, and this may be readily and quickly effected, as it is unnecessary to withdraw the end-gate from Ways.

It wilLbeseen that the end-gate is exceed- "ingly'simpleand i nexpensive in construction and that the various devices are adapted to support and strengthen the wagon. The locking-leversextend entirely across the end-gate and are interlocked with the latch-bars or keepers, and when the parts are arranged as shown in Fig. l the end-gate is firmly braced and supported. 'The'locking-levers are simultaneously operated by the operating-lever, and they maybereadilydisengagedfrom the latch bars. or keepers without necessitating the driver orother person getting off the wagon. The end-gatemay be-readilyilowered to an inclined position to form a shoveling-- parts for dumping.

What I claim isl. Thecombination with a wagonbody, and an end-gate,of hangers detachably mounted on the sides of "the-Wagon -body'and providedwith means'for engaging'the same, pivotssupported byithehangers and located within the wagon-body, and-links arranged-within the Wagon-body andcon nected 'withthe-pivots and with *the end-gate at'thebottom thereof and supporting the said end-gate when the 'sameis in avertical position, substantiallyas described.

'2. The combination with a -wagon body, and an end-gate, of-'hangers mounted on the Wagon-body and provided with hooks-forengagingthe upper 'edges-of the sam'eyo'ne o'f the 'hooks of each hanger beingarrangedbetween the'cleats of the wagon-bodyand having depending arms, pivots*supported'bythe arms, and links-arranged within the wagon body and conn'e'cted with the pivots and'with porting the' said end-gatewhenthe same is in a vertical position ,substantiallyas described.

3. The 'com' bination with a' wagon=bodyihaving cleats, of an end-gate provided at its bottom=with slots'and having piritles "extendin g a'cross theslots, the/hangers mounted'on the sides of the wagon-body and provided with 'hooks engagingt'he same and arranged between the cleats, pivots connected with the said hooks, links arranged within the "body and'connected with'th'e pivots and with the pintles and supporting the end-gatewhen the same is in a vertical position, and the arms or 'hooks mounted on the-end-gateat the'bottom thereof and arranged to engage-thebottom of the body, substantially as described.

4. The'combination with a wagon-body, and an end-gate,of hangers mounted on the sides of the wagon-body atthe top thereof, the 7 links arranged within the wagon-body and connected with theh'angers' and'withthe'bottom ofthe end-gate and supporting the latter whenthe same is in a vertical position,

the keepers rigid with the hangers and located at the outer faces of the sides of the wagon-body, and locking devices mounted on the end-gate and engaging the keepers, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a Wagon-body, and an end-gate, 0f hangers mounted on the wagonbody, inner links connected with the hangers and with the end-gate and located at the inner faces of the sides of the Wagon-body, the latch-bars or keepers rigid with the hangers and located at the outer faces of the sides of the Wagon-body, and the locking-levers extending across the end-gate and connected with each other and engaging the latch-bars or keepers, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a wagon-body, and an end-gate, of latch-bars or keepers rigidly mounted on the wagon-body, the lockinglevers fulcrumed on the end-gate and arranged to engage the latch-bars or keepers, and an operating-lever fulcrumed on the endgate and having an eccentrically-arranged opening receiving the locking-levers, substantially as described.

7. The combination with a Wagon-body, and an end-gate, of hangers mounted on the sides of the wagon-body and provided with angularly-bent offset portions having slots, latchbars or keepers arranged at the outer faces of the sides of the Wagon-body, fastening devices passing through the said slots and securing the locking-bars or keepers to the offset portions of the hangers, and locking devices mounted on the end-gate and engaging the locking-bars or keepers, substantially as described.

8. The combination with a Wagon-body, and an end-gate, of hangers mounted on the sides of the wagon-body and provided with angularly-bent offset portions having exterior corrugations and provided with vertical slots, the corrugated latch-bars or keepers interlocked with the offset portions of the hangers, fastening devices passing through the said slots and securing the latch-bars or keepers to the said hangers, and locking devices mounted on the end-gate and engaging the latch-bars or keepers, substantially as described.

9. The combination with a wago n-body, and an end-gate,of hangers mounted on the Wagon body, the rigid latch-bars or keepers arranged at the outer faces of the sides of the Wagonbody and adjustably mounted on the hangers, the locking-levers adjustably fulcrumed on the end-gate and arranged to engage the latch bars or keepers, and the adjustable operatinglever mounted on the end-gate and engaging each of the locking-levers, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS M. STURGIS.

Witnesses:

WM. H. CRAIG, O. B. FUNK. 

